1. Geologists suffer observatory glitches.
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Monastersky, Richard
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GEOLOGIC faults , *DETECTORS , *ACCELEROMETERS , *SEISMOMETERS - Abstract
The article focuses on the EarthScope project examining the San Andreas fault in California. It states that a major element of the project, a suite of instruments and detectors buried deep in the San Andreas fault, stopped functioning. Geophysicist Mark Zoback said that the instruments stopped functioning a few days after they were installed in the fault line. It mentions that there is insufficient funding to recover the detectors, which included seismometers and accelerometers.
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- 2009
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